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African American Community, Important Theories of Psychology, and the Causes and Effects of Neglect and Oppression

1998). What these factors are telling many within the mental health community it that the majority of African Americans are living...

Black American Perspectives on Death and Dying from a Religious View

traditions carried down through the generations (Ruark, 2003). Dr. Ronald K. Barrett has spent many years studying how African Am...

African American Slaves and Their Cultural Dislocation

the initial feeling which overcame the slaves which was that "at some moment, all ones imprecations, all ones pleas to ancestors, ...

Analyzing Frederick Douglass's Speech 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?'

task before him. He maintained that any apparent ease he displayed was merely an illusion. Because of this opening, I believe th...

1960s' African American Political Activism

as H. Rap Brown in his political Autobiography "Die Nigger Die!", the speeches and writings of Malcolm X which included his 1964 s...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

Nadine Gordimer's Writings and the Theme of Intolerance

In 10 pages this paper considers the theme of intolerance as represented in the works of this South African Jewish author. There ...

Segregation, Determination, and the Poetry of Langston Hughes

In six pages this paper discusses the poet's narrators without gender, how he uses women, and how African American determination d...

Civil Rights Movement and the Role of African American Women

century after the turning point events of the 1960s, it is time to give the black women of the civil rights movement the credit an...

Poverty, African Americans, and Substance Abuse

In nine pages this paper discusses the connection between poverty, African Americans, and substance abuse in a consideration that ...

Moving Mountains by Leon Sullivan

In eight pages this autobiography by General Motor's first African American board member is reviewed and his global corporate infl...

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter's Trial Coverage

This paper contrasts and compares African American and mainstream media's depictions of 'Hurricane' Carter's trial in eight pages....

African National Congress's Impact on Social Change

In five pages this paper assesses the social change impact of the African National Congress with poverty among the topics addresse...

Diawara and Appiah on African Globalization

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Africa modernization is seen through the texts of Kwarme Anthony Appiah's 'In My Father's House' ...

Post 1970 Texas Law Enforcement Brutality

In twelve pages this paper discusses post 1970 police brutality as it pertains to the Houston Police Department's treatment of Afr...

Fetal Cocaine Exposure and Legal Action Consideration

In twelve pages this paper considers the exposure of a fetus to cocaine in a socioeconomic study of an African American mother in ...

Finding Peace in a Culture of War

individual is exposed to any type of experience there is the potential for that individual to be desensitized to any experiences t...

Westerners And Bushmen Exchange Systems

relations. Bushmen feel a great need to give and receive food, perhaps to cement relationships with each other, perhaps to proved...

African Agriculture

and ... [facilitate] productive partnerships that strengthen Africas agriculture" (AATF strategy, 2008). AATF explains three str...

Theories in Sociological Studies

interact with each other, and tend to ignore larger structures such as national governments and economies ("Theoretical Perspectiv...

Counseling, Psychology And Cultural Concerns

basis upon which positive psychology operates. Indeed, there will always be a place for the type of therapy that purges psycholog...

Psychiatry's Impact on African Americans

This research paper addresses how African Americans have been misdiagnosed by psychologists and psychiatrists. The writer relates ...

Walker's Everyday Use Compared with Welty's A Worn Path

Wangero Leewanika (formerly known as "Dee") cannot see them as such anymore than the people "Aunt Phoenix" encounters on her walk ...

Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart and Mark Mathabane's Kaffir Boy

In five pages the South African apartheid experiences in these texts are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources list...

Hybrids of Black Music

In five pages the concept of hybrid is examined as it leads into a discussion of the development of African American musical hybri...

Comparative Analysis of Langston Hughes' 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and Maya Angelou's 'Africa'

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the ways in which Africa is portrayed in the respective poems but how both poets empl...

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois on Reconstruction

In five pages this paper contrasts these differing views on Reconstruction by these important African American icons. Six sources...

African Epics of Africa

In five pages the African epics Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge by Molefi Kete Asante and Sundiata An Epic of Old Mali by D....

The 'Other' America in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

This paper consisting of five pages investigates the environment that two young African American boys experience in their Chicago ...

African Americans and Repatriation

accepted within the melting pot. Shrouded in white sheets to cover their cowardice faces, white men would beat, burn and kill the...